What is Tauri?
Tauri is a framework that enables developers to create compact, lightning-fast desktop applications with a web-based frontend. Leveraging Rust for the core and Node.js for the command-line interface, Tauri offers a polyglot approach to building and maintaining robust desktop applications. Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to construct the user interface, providing a flexible and versatile solution for desktop software development
Highlights
- Builds tiny, high-performance binaries for all major desktop platforms
- Supports integration of any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
- Employs a polyglot approach, utilizing Rust for the core and Node.js for the command-line interface
- Provides a toolkit for creating applications for the major desktop platforms
Features
Lightweight
Small-footprint
Support for Javascript
Cross-Platform
Rust
Based on Webkit engine
Security focused